11.   Suspicion immediately fell on the Moscow office of USAID, an entrenched bureaucracy of old Russia hands who possess little love for the Harvard youngsters.

12.   The effort will pit him against an entrenched bureaucracy that is fiercely protected by parents and lawyers.

13.   The entrenched bureaucracy that has long run Japan still appears reluctant to change the methods that brought unprecedented post-World War II prosperity but have now badly failed.

14.   The elation died down as economic reforms became stymied by an entrenched communist bureaucracy and a gigantic collectivist system jerry-rigged against change.

15.   The government, as it often seems to in any crusade against entrenched bureaucracy, most obligingly played the heavy.

16.   The partnership reported that successful programs were the exception in a system that is largely failing youngsters, alienating parents and providing lifetime employment for an entrenched bureaucracy.

17.   With its powerful unions and entrenched bureaucracy, it is a system noticeably resistant to change.

18.   Working without any advanced tools of modern detection, Burakov also has to battle the entrenched bureaucracy of a Soviet Union still inching toward perestroika.

19.   Corruption at all levels, entrenched bureaucracy and doubts that Romania has cast off its former Communists put a damper on foreign investment.

20.   Hashimoto himself has admitted that if he fails in his battle with the entrenched bureaucracy, he will no longer be able to expect people to trust him.